h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Was he still waering the gold medallion ?

& did he singe(sp?) his moustache aswell??......

karrrm dawn there la

How's Grandad's proximal interphalangeal joint at present?

(I've been trying - and failing abysmally - to interpret the previous 3 posts).

My younger son is taller than me, and when we're walking someplace in the rain together, a lot of near eye poking goes on, because of the difference in height - but if we each take our own umbrella it's equally dangerous! (We have sun today, for the first time in weeks, but according to the radio, it will rain on the weekend. Sigh.)

"Do not eschew the umbrella"

(Favourite phrase of a colleague's former Professor of Medicine when recommending treatment with antibiotics - I believe)

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Ref. "Anything long or dangly while using a wringer washing machine"(Post 52).

This reminds me of some 'serious accidents' involving men with vacuum cleaners which was reported in either in the British Medical Journal or the Lancet some years back - but I digress.

There is a post further on which talks about 'distracting clothing'. I once crashed into the back of a car that was turning right in the middle lane at a cross-roads controilled by traffic lights. This was because I was distracted by a rather well-endowed young lady on the pavement wearing a holey t-shirt and no bra.I failed to notice that the car in front was indicating right!

(I thought of undergoiung 'aversion training' to unfettered breasts but thought <nah&gt

There is actually a case in law, when someone claimed that a lorry driver was liable for injuries because the lorry was parked negligently (Dymond v. Pearce [1972] 1 QB 496 ). The Judge decided that the driver of the motor cycle on which he was a pillion was "... watching the attractive young ladies on the pavement instead of looking ahead of him .."

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I knew a girl at school in the 5th form (year 11 for the younger among us) who put her wrist through a wringer washing machine, having (somehow?) turned it into a copier to print her Larry's Rebels (1970s NZ band) fan club newsletter! She was in my class at school, and our fathers worked together - I will always remember her father telling my father that his daughter was an idiot, and her best friend taking her notes for her all the rest of the year.

That sounds like quite an ingenious use for a wringer. I guess it worked something like a Gestetner copier. i.e print transfer by application of pressure.

Yes, that's exactly what she said she had been trying to do. Is it significant that her name was Sharon?

Or Trace !

Trace...

Tracy I get. Whereof Sharon? I heard of a guy called Sal Mimeo once. And another guy called Harold Printer. Ani.

*quick translation*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Slags

Methinks 'Sharon' is a typical nane for so-called 'Essex Girl' - who have an unfortunate and uncalled for stereotype.

And for Big Al,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/harryenfieldstel_66601350.shtml

Hmm. Not quite sure why I was deserving of that contribution. However, I used to like 'Foxy' in 'The Topper'.

I was listenming on Radio 4 the other day to a programme where they were discussing the re-introduction of The Dandy, and the new characters therein.

Reminds me of when I was studying for my chemistry degree by Part-Time Day Release. Once per week I had to make a 1 hour rail journey to get to the Uni, during which I tried to do some work.

I still can't get over that, whilst I was struggling with the mathemartical complexities of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Problem in 3-Dimensions of Space, the chap opposite, who must have been attending a course at the same Uni, had enormous piles of The Beano and Dandy. Is there no justice? I wish I could've had the foresight to study on a course that required the reading of such literature

Rats. We don't get these two shows in Canukistan. They sound hilarious. Trace and Sharon: good grief! The mere thought makes me want to gain about 100 lbs! Ani.

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Come join us on the Philip K Dick thread on my space.

Heisenberg: you'd be a little uncertain too after a cuppla hunnerd matrices. Forgive me, I have to go let Schrodinger's Cat out. (Poor fella's bin feeling a bit boxed in of late.) Ani.

PS: We're off topic aren't we? Do you think the thought police will find us here? OK OK OK. Another one: the Heisenberg strap. A particularly paucitous dress strap for particularly pendulous people designed to demonstrate his uncertainty theory. Later superceded by superstrings which tended to wrap around themselves and create new universes -- a mite over the top (and ominous) to wear to the Bingo Hall with buddy. Ani.